Parish to Ward to Local Authority District Lookup for England and Wales, December 2020

A December 2020 lookup file mapping civil parishes and communities to electoral wards and local authorities in England and Wales. The dataset includes codes and names for each administrative level, with a file size of 3 MB. It was updated to incorporate late changes to parishes and wards in Leeds.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local statistics from parish to district level based on the hierarchical lookup structure.
• Validating and standardizing geographic codes for data integration based on the PAR20CD, WD20CD, and LAD20CD fields.
• Creating choropleth maps of England and Wales using the defined administrative ward and district boundaries.
• Joining demographic or economic data to local authorities using the provided lookup keys.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot as of 31 December 2020, offering temporal consistency.
• Includes late updates for 6 parishes and 2 electoral wards in Leeds, suggesting maintenance.
• Contains both codes (e.g., PAR20CD) and names (e.g., PAR20NM) for each administrative level.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2022-12-12 09:24:20.729000; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official administrative registers and statutory instruments.

Time Range

As at 31 December 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2022-12-12 09:24:20.729000

Geography

England and Wales